Comments on: Get Blog Networking!

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:12:46 +0000

@Darren: You’re welcome

Happy New Year everybody!

By: Darren Cronian

Darren Cronian — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:38:21 +0000

Markus I didn’t realise you could subscribe to the RSS – great idea.

It’s never going to be a massive traffic referral, but it all adds up.

By: MikeonTV

MikeonTV — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:23:40 +0000

Wow! great ideas in the comments and the article. Thanks guys. Something I like to do is whenever I register at a webforum my ‘location’ is my website!

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:26:58 +0000

I have subscribed via RSS to some of my keywords.
Example: http://de.answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p=hamburg

Sometimes I find good inspirations AND also good answers (read: lists).
Following the questions is similar to analyzing the incoming SE traffic.

My experience is that answers don’t bring much traffic though.

By: pholpher

pholpher — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:24:12 +0000

Going to Yahoo Answers is a great idea. A similar tactic is visiting forums and seeing what questions people are asking.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:16:44 +0000

I did an experiment with my no-traffic personal blog recently, commenting on a wide variety of blogs on all different topics. I have to say, the results were disappointing – no more than 12 visitors per day from something like 10 quality comments.

I could have spent that time writing good content.

The Yahoo Answers idea is a good one – cruise your topic area and find out what questions people are asking, then write the answers as posts on your blog. You’ll be creating useful content *and* you can link to yourself as a resource on Answers.

By: anantshri

anantshri — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:07:06 +0000

well i have been doing a few of these especially yahoo answers works.

ALso would like to add, if you want quality traffic and good exposure, list your links in proper manner in wikipidea,
my blog has two links in wikipedia with niche being LINUX, and i am getting nearly 15-20 visitors curtsy wikipedia

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http://anantshri.info – my personal site
http://blog.anantshri.info – My personal Blog.

By: Darren Cronian

Darren Cronian — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:47:05 +0000

No problem Mikey, glad I could help.

I’m quite surprised, the first two blog posts are up on the homepage!

By: mikeyparker

mikeyparker — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:40:23 +0000

Thanks for that tip. I’ve just started out on the road to trying to attract and keep readers for my new blog The Attention Project. And this is the hardest part – trying to attract people in the first instance to come and read what you have to say.

So I guess this comment accomplishes the first tip in your post “visit a high profile blog within your niche – leave comment” and I’ll definitely check out Yahoo answers.